To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them...
Author: George Mason
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Author: Clarence Seward Darrow
We are not weak, if we make proper use of those means which the God of
nature hath placed in our power... The battle, sir, is not to the strong
alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Author: Patrick Henry
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
Author: P.J O'Rourke
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater
than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek
not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds
you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that
ye were our countrymen.
Author: Samuel Adams
In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated,
and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then
it costs nothing to be a Patriot.
Author: Mark Twain
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling
into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from
falling into error.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Author: Robert H. Parker
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually
take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our
house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or
without, we must try to extinguish it.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for
the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage
than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater
confidence than an armed man.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is
dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find
criticism subversive.
Author: Henry Steele
Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up,
brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had
happened.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes.
In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat.
Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Author: Aldous Leonard Huxley
